[Xymon] Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?

[Thomas Eckert]

(2nd try correcting from-address)

Wouldn't using the 'httpstatus'-test solve the problem of separate 
status columns and alerting? P probably i didn't get the hardcase 
correctly but the following example gives 2 columns (h_app1 and 2) and 
allows separate alerting. In addition xymon " feeds" the data to the 
http- column - so all checks are aggregated there.

hosts.cfg:
1.2.3.4    appsrv.example.com     #
httpstatus=h_app1;http://appsrv.example.com:80/;200;3..|4..|5..|999
httpstatus=h_app2;http://appsrv.example.com:81/;200;3..|4..|5..|999

alerts.cfg:
SERVICE=h_app1
         MAIL admin at example.com

SERVICE=h_app2
         MAIL admin2 at example.com

Thomas

On 11/14/2012 01:30 PM, henrik at hswn.dk wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:23:28 -0500, Betsy Schwartz
> <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http
>> tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL,  with the ability
>> to alert separately, sign out separately, etc.
>> As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or
>> another, the various URL's test very different functionality.
>
> I have been thinking about making this configurable, so you could do
>
>     http=App1;http://myserver/App1 http=App2;http://myserver/App2
>
> and have "App1" and "App2" appears as separate columns.
>
>
> Haven't done any code yet, though, since this would happen "automagically"
> with the new network tester I have underway for Xymon 5.0. So putting it
> into 4.x would be somewhat of a wasted effort.
>
> But I have the same issue myself, so perhaps I should look at how much
> effort it would take.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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